The Bonner Party moves back to San Antonio

If you missed the “Sneakers & Speakers” event put on by Spur sharpshooter Matt Bonner and his brother Luke Wednesday in Austin during SXSW — and of course you did; it was 80 miles away and on a weeknight — you’ll get another chance Saturday.

The star of that show — the rootsy, raucous Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band – will play at halftime and after the Spurs’ game with the injury-riddled Cleveland Cavaliers. Game time is 7:30. Bonner, who used Wednesday’s event to launch a new nonprofit, the Rock On Foundation, will drop in (after the game, of course; Coach Pop might frown upon a halftime cameo). Other Spurs might show up, too. The concert will be outside in the Bud Light Courtyard.

Rev. Peyton is a unusual power trio, to put it mildly. Its weird-beard leader, augmented by his wife Breezy on vocals and rubboard and drummer Aaron Persinger (whose kit includes an upside-down bucket), plays what music writer Jim Beal Jr. described as “a revved-up take on American roots music.”

How revved-up? The Rev. plays his hollow-body guitar “at a volume that would make two or three rockers smile,” Beal wrote.

Rev. Peyton certainly seemed to make an impression Wednesday. Our slide show showed Matt and Luke getting down on tambourine, along with Bonner’s teammate Patty Mills. Gary Neal and Stephen Jackson were also on hand at the event, the latter performing as rapper Stak5.

And if you can’t make the game, the Big Damn Band will perform Sunday night at Sam’s Burger Joint.